Home > Consumer Reviews > Acer Aspire One AOD150-1165 10.1-Inch Sapphire Blue Netbook - 6.5 Hour Battery Life

Before you get a little too excited about this product, let it be known that this toy has wireless connectivity issues. Even Acer is of very little help in this department. Other than that, it's a fine little machine.

Super Machine. Anything you don't like, tough jungle bunnies.
This is a fabulous machine!

I like this laptop when I got it. A week after, I have issues with power adapter. I googled, and all I can see is people having some or other issues with Acer Aspire Ones. They have very poor quality of laptops, untested bulk sales of crappy machines. Their Customer Service is even pathetic. No phone number on their website to start with. I googled and found a number, but after 4 calls, no one sensible.

Couple of other things:
1. Keyboard is too small, although my fingers are small, I can't type like a normal keyboard. Its not a full keyboard. Up/down arrow, u need to literally located them.
2. RAM is hard to upgrade, u literally have to ripoff the whole system, and void the warranty to upgrade it.

I am quite impressed with most of the features, I could probably get used to the keybord, but I do not think I will ever be able to work in MS Word on it. Being able to see only one ore two paragraphs of the document (Word 2007 buttons take another inch or so of the already tiny screen) just doesn't work for me. I just can not see how I am editing my 100 pages long thesis on this. It is probably fine for taking notes, but I would not recommend it if you need to work with large documents. As well the touchpad is quite annoying. I would much prefer had Acer kept the traditional two buttons. I am returning mine and investing another 200 to 300 bucks more into something that is still portable, but it is also possible to actually work on it (not mentioning the advantage of being able to see a movie while traveling without having to upload it via USB-).

I bought this tiny netbook mainly to serve as the monitor for my vehicles' GPS. These little 4" or 5" or whatever GPS thingies are too small for me (even though I am only 5'6") so I opted for this handy laptop.

Performance: good for a midget computer
Keyboard: almost normal size, very good
Battery life: superb
Display: see below - unacceptable, and that is what it's all about, you gotta SEE what is going on, NOT GUESS folks!
Video watching: faultless; no frame jerking or such

In my cars that's where the troubles begin: Even on a cloudy day I can only hypothesize a picture on the screen! In my house it is acceptable; take the thing to a rather dark room - the extremely glossy picture is fine, but lift the window blinds and voilà, you can't see no nothing nix nada zilch zero. Thanks heaven the GPS program tells me loud and early enough where to turn into which street etc. Yo I feel like I'd fly on audio LIFR (Low/Limited Instrument Flight Rules). OK.

Now on to the aspect ratio: neither fish nor flesh, i.e. not 4:3 or 16:10 (16:9 is for TVs) but something in between.

Sob and sigh... But I am too lazy to send the unit back.

Conclusion: a fine little fast enough machine with superb battery life, recommendable for use at home, in the coal storehouse or at the bar, but definitely not for use outside or in a vehicle.

One more fact: the little Acer is well suited for CSI as the very best finger-print collector I have ever seen. Am I framed now?